Ah well, last guy who talked like that got his cranium evacuated by the CIA in broad daylight, so uh...
... yeah ...
I mean, can I just say I follow the Jefferson Bible, am I a Christian if I do that?
Yes?
No?
Let me guess:
A bunch of different Christians will disagree about that!
How is it an interesting thing to do?
Hateful bigotry is bad, is that your point?
... Religion is the only one of those things that, by definition, constitutes a worldview that... very often serves as a generator of violent bigotry, in and of itself.
'Race', gender, sexual orientation, those things can lead to the actual enactment of violent bigotry against outgroup members... but they have to be paired with an accompanying worldview and/or material economic situation of disparity for that to arise.
Religion is the only one of those that doesn't need any extra components for its adherents, its members, to enact violent bigotry against outgroup members.
I'm not justifying violent bigotry.
I'm explaining what causes it:
So long as there are idiotic squabbles over nonsensical and contradictory and logically incoherent worldviews, that are deeply held with great conviction, there will be violent bigotry.
Further, 'race' itself is an ultimately incoherent construct, it is a worldview, one that is just so ingrained into so many that we don't even realize this.
People groups exist, ethnolinguistic groups exist, heritages of haplogroups exist... 'race' doesn't, 'race' is a way of thinking, promulgated by some societies, that just clumsily and incoherently defines people into ingroup and outgroup members, and then oppresses the outgroup members so hard that they are functionally forced to adopt it as a practical, lived identity.
Imagine trying to do the 'one drop rule' with the US conception of 'white people'.
Oh, sure, you're uh I dunno, Norweigan, eh? Well, there's actually a German, and even a Spaniard, somewhere in your set of great great grandparents, so clearly, you're some kind of white mochalatto, not really pure white, thus impure.
... Absolute nonsense.
Gender and sexual orientation?
These are unchangeable, naturally arising aspects of people, that some other people with some worldviews may choose to hate, or not.
Religion?
Very often the worldview that chooses to hate.
'Race'?
Yeah, more complicated, more like a clumsy worldview that is enforced onto others untill they adopt it or have no choice but to adopt it... by certain other kinds of worldviews, which are very often religions.
With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion.
And then the fourth type of guy: Oh hi Mark!
Put this autisticly detailed beauty analysis in spoiler tags to avoid blowing up the thread...
Bi guy here:
lol wtf, Pete Davidson is like, the most average looking dude ever.
He's probably just popular because people write 'funny' things for him to say, and people enjoy laughing, and he's basically nice / goofy / safe.
Now Adrian Brody?
Ok, so, he actually has a chisled, yet slender face. He also has a ... fairly uncommon kind of nose, for someone with such a chiseled yet slender face.
That makes him, imo, a kind of ... very distinctive, 'controversial' kind of beautiful.
And what I mean by controversial is that... basically, there are facial proportions that are just generally seen as attractive, by most people.
But there are also people who more or less follow thoae typical 'beautiful to everyone' proportions, but, have some elements that wildly diverge from the 'generally beautiful to everyone' proportions.
This has been studied, and such people tend to be rated extremely beautiful by some people, and extremely unnatractive by other people.
Thus 'controversially beautiful'; you either really find such a face very appealing, or you really don't, very few people rate them as middling or average.
So, for what you describe as basically someone being drunk in the proverbial character creator menu?
Well, yeah, see, thats the kind of thing that can result in a face that some people are really into, and others are really not. You're clearly in the 'not into it' camp, but a lot of women are in the 'into it' camp.
To attempt a similar kind of comparison with what I'd think is a controversially beautiful female face:
Look up Dichen Lachmann.
Heritage? Australian and Tibetan.
Yeah hows that for 'drunk in the character creator menu'?
She has very striking and unique facial proportions, personally, I'm a big fan of them, but also, as I think she is 'controversially beautiful', I would expect a fair number of people to basically describe her as very strange looking, the way you describe Brody.
But beyond all that: Brody is actually just a very good actor, pretty talented, so... it makes sense to me that people would generally appreciate that and also find that beautiful.
Anyway, yeah, there is actual 'science', or at least exhaustive data analysis, that can give you an idea of how percieved beauty 'works', going by actual measurements of facial proportions.
Some people, some combinations of ranges of facial proportions... are just generally agreed to be unattractive, average, attractive...
... while others are 'controversial' with basically the opposite of a bell curve distribution, a two peak with a valley in the middle...
...other kinds of people, sets of facial proportion ranges, are generally more or less beautiful to certain identifiable subsets of people... you've got the whole oval/circle/triangle/diamond/heart/square rough face types, long used to help people pick out haircuts and glasses that look good on them... for artists to mockup chatacter designs with...
There are infact statistically identifiable and defineable 'types' of faces that certain people find more or less attractive, this kind of thing can be substantiated and defined with math. Its just that humans typically do that 'math' in their heads subconsciously, heuristically, and use a widely varying array of often just nonsensical adjectives to try and actually describe this... because that underlying math is actually very complicated.
That and most people also have varying exposure to different kinds of faces, depending on a whole lot of other variables, and that will to some degree also shape their perception of what is and is not beautiful.
And finally beyond that, sometimes there's just no accounting for some kinds of personal tastes and preferences.
... Unless they functionally constitute a massive, fast moving, kind of net, that anything trying to climb to a higher orbit has to pass through, and hope to not collide with, as showcased by this article we are commenting on.
Anything that's trying to break through VLEO, well, if a collision happens on its way to LEO, or beyond, some of those debris will be headed to LEO or beyond.
Yes, I would say that a kind of... immense spiritual awareness, or contemplative understanding of the interconnected nature of reality (and yourself) constitutes a kind of very strong belief.
Though I don't think its explicitly stated in the movies that the 'spoon kid' ... literally pulls himself out of the matrix...
In MxO, which is I guess roughly 'secondary canon', one of the kinds of character archetypes you can play as, is basically 'zen master', so yeah I would tend to agree that thats probably another reasonably valid 'canonical' way by which someone could escape the matrix on their own, transcend 'reality'.
Thats true, that is also a thing.
But... usually ... the style shift... contextually makes sense, to... emphasize something. A mood shift, a perspective shift, a time shift, etc.
Or sometimes you get a sort of... clipshow type format, but its not actually a clipshow, its ... the style is bouncing around all over the place, basically as both an artistic tour de force, and as a sort of meta joke, for that whole episode.
I guess I'm just not seeing anything like that here.
I'm honestly tempted to think this is some kind of edit.
The art style for both characters, not just the woman, completely changes for the last two panels.
Everything is different, more simplistic faces and facial features, more swoopy, less angular, less detail, both characters become basically ovals or rounded rectangles, when they were first basically polygons... eyes for both characters are now totally different...
gotta somehow also make it involve matrix transforms, maybe use quaternions, and randomly compare a random array of them, until they result they result in a 10 degree rotation in one realspace vector.
Yep, pretty insane if taken at face value.
My guess would be the gun is meant as a visual metaphor/joke, but uh... yeah, its not actually a wholly implausible literal scenario.
Probably the author/artist has very little real world experience with firearms, would be my guess.
sp3ctr4l
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If a private company hired you to kill people...
... and you broke their NDA...
... they will hire someone to kill you.
I get what you're trying to ask, but oh boy have you picked a silly example.
Long story short: Uh, basically you have to sue or be sued, to find out how enforceable an NDA actually is or isnt.
But:
Big company have money.
You? Not have as much money.
NDAs are mostly effective tools of stifling speech by way of intimidation, not by way of legal legitimacy.
Sure, I'm sure many scenarios exist where a clause of an NDA is enforceable if you violate it... but there are so many different possible laws and jurisdictions that come into play... you'd have to be a lot more specific.